Colin Hunt

My egg tempera paintings explore the afterlife. Each is expressed
as a portal or threshold between one version of a place and
another. In looking for a language to explain that which sits
beyond knowing, I’ve constructed an aperture in the landscape
to many points triangulated in space and time. The closer these
places come to holding together visually, the more obvious and
explicit their emptiness or relativity. Drawing inspiration from
Avebury, a neolithic henge in southern England, these pictures
are puzzles of literally what’s not there in a document, reflected
over and over for the viewer at the moment of looking. In this way,
I attempt to upend the conventions of landscape painting and the
sublime to focus on everyday mysteries about death—how we live
with it and how the enormity of someone’s life can coexist with the
hole of their nonbeing.